ABSTRACT
The multitude of genealogical lines, the diversity of individual and family types contained in each race is so great that no race can be considered as a unit. The feeling between Whites and Negroes in our country is decidedly of this character. There is an immediate feeling of contrast that is expressed in the popular conviction of the superiority of the White race. The feeling extends even to cases in which the Negro admixture is very slight and in which there is no certainty of the racial position of the individual. The basis of race consciousness and race antipathies is the dogmatic belief in the existence of well-defined races all the members of which possess the same fundamental bodily and mental characters. Race consciousness differs considerably in intensity. In the United States, taken as a whole, the feeling of aloofness between White and Negro is strongest. In primitive human society every tribe forms a closed society.
